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Reuben's Brews · Seattle, WA · Hazy IPA

Hazealicious

6% ABV. 2 hops, one of them straight off the bine — here's what each one is and what it brings.

4 Brooks had it

Fresh hop beer. Fresh (or “wet”) hops go from the bine to the kettle within hours, never kilned. The figures below are for the dried hop; fresh ones carry the same oils in a greener, brighter form, and brewers use several times the weight.

What it'll taste like

What the 2 hops smell like, most shared first — from the hop growers' and breeders' own notes, not the brewery's. 2 from USA.

The hop bill

In the order Reuben's Brews lists them: Fresh Strata hops elevate the overall fruity character of Hazealicious on top of its soft and pillowy body. Dolcita is described as having a pleasing mix of tropical, citrus, and stone fruits notes including Valencia oranges, caramelized bananas, peaches, coconut and honeydew melon.. Read off a photo of the can with Scan a beer, 2026-10-01. Forms like Cryo and CO2 extract are the same variety processed differently.

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New to hop talk? What these words mean
Bitterness (alpha acid)
How much bite a hop gives when it's boiled. Under 5% is gentle, 13%+ is a bruiser. It's why a West Coast IPA snaps and a pilsner doesn't.
Aroma oil
The smelly part of the hop — where the citrus, pine and tropical fruit come from. More oil, more punch when it's added late or dry-hopped.
Myrcene, humulene…
The main oils. Lots of myrcene reads fruity and resinous; humulene and caryophyllene read woody, herbal, spicy.
Aroma / bittering / dual purpose
What brewers mostly use the hop for: smell, bite, or both.
Fresh (wet) hop
Hops straight from the field into the beer, same day, never dried. Only at harvest, late August into October.
Cryo, CGX, LupoMax, Incognito
The same hop, processed: concentrated powder or extract, for more aroma with less vegetal taste.

In Brooks’s glass

4 rated here, Oct 1, 2026

Fresh hop hazy FTW

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Built 2026-10-01T01:17:02.148Z from 232 cultivar records. Data under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Source and corrections on GitHub. Not affiliated with any hop breeder, farm or merchant; variety names are the marks of their owners.